...Around this luminary, at different distances, the following planets revolve in the order here stated — Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars — Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas — Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Of all the objects in the visible creation with which we are acquainted, there is none whose magnitude...

...mean distance of about 240,000 miles. The planets, in the order of their distances from the sun, are Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Herschel. — Mercury, and Venus, which are nearer the sun than the earth, are called inferior planets...

...a bluish-white colour. WILLIAM. How many planets, then, are there altogether ? ELIZABETH. Eleven : Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Herschel. MOTHER. As the distances of the different planets from the sun are rather difficult to remember...

...eighteen secondary planets or moons, and a number of comets. 361. The names of the primary planets are Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Herschel. 362. The earth has one moon, Jupiter four, Saturn seven, and Herschel six. The other seven...

...the same time revolving like a wheel, each on its own axis. There are eleven primary planets, viz., Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and HerscheL Besides these, there are 18 secondary planets or moons, which revolve around their respective...

...The^pfimary planets are situated, with respect to their distances from the sun, in the following order : Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Herschell planet, or the Georgium Sidus. Of these, our Earth is accompanied by one moon, Jupiter...

...bodies which in our system regard the sun »s lis centre of their orbits; they are in number eleven, Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. • Planetarium, an instrument made use of for showing tbe phenomena of the heavenly bodies. Pleiades,...

...from its inventor Copernicus. The order of the planets with respect to their distances from the sun, is Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. that the sun's apparent orbit is an ellipse, and that the radius vector describes equal areas in equal...

...receive the impulses of light, heat, and motion, from the Sun. The names of these primary planets, are, Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Herschell. The Earth (which we inhabit,) being the third in distance from the Sun. 3rd Class. — Eighteen...

...following figure the small central star represents the sun, and the circles represent the orbits of Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, in the order here enumerated. The orbits of the new planets, Vesja, Juno, Ceres, and Pallas, are represented...